Quote: (04-26-2017 11:33 PM)puckerman Wrote:
Quote: (04-25-2017 10:20 PM)MMX2010 Wrote:
The first is that the natural state of humanity is towards statism, not libertarianism.
That applies to a large portion of humanity, but not all of it.
That doesn't matter.
One of the most important discoveries made by evolutionary biologists / neuroscientists is called The Rule of 150, which simply means that the maximum number of people an individual human being can reliably be acquainted with is 150.
In prehistory, this meant that villages tended to fall apart due to internal strife right around the moment their populations reached 150.
In modern times, this means that if you're living in an area (whether neighborhood, village, town, state, or nation) containing more than 150 people,
you're being bound together by a mysterious force that transcends the limitations of the human brain.
Nature, according to evolutionary biologists, tends towards efficiency. And we can use this rule (and a sense of history) to postulate what that binding force is.
The cheapest binding force is GENETICS. Simply, a population of 300 people is likely to remain bonded if all of its members are closely genetically related.
The next-cheapest binding force is RELIGION. The books "On Killing by Dave Grossman" and "The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt" are two of the easiest books that explore this subject.
In the first book, the military accidently discovered that synchronized, arduous physical movement produces an intense feeling of group loyalty. (When a soldier describes being taken apart and being put back together into a stronger, team-player, he's describing the natural biological reaction to extended hours of military drilling.)
In the second book, Jonathan Haidt accidentally discovered the importance
and 100%-presence in all primitive societies of ritual chanting and dancing. He was lucky enough to have read Grossman's book before he saw the primitive dances, so he correctly speculated that those dances performed the same function as military drilling. From there, he speculated that morality IS NOT a series of agreed-upon rules, but rather a sense of bonded, common feeling - without which no rules can be created. (Or, if they can be created, there's too much incentive to break them, since breaking them only hurts people to whom you're NOT BONDED.)
The next-cheapest bonding force is government and nation, most of which have strong religious components anyway. Religion is a much more powerful bonding force, given that practically all societies are religious in some manner. Atheists, whom Vox Day repeatedly decries as Lacking In Empathy, only want to discuss Religion-As-Theology (usually in point-and-laugh mode). But they don't want to discuss Religion-As-Evolutionary-Force, (likely because this viewpoint treats religion in a more favorable light and challenges Atheists to develop a more rigorous criticism of religion than "talking snake".
Atheists are also prone to suggest that a religion-free government is better than a theocracy. But right now, that's not scientifically established, and the way France and especially Sweden are being run over by Muslims,
Muslims, God dammit, is a big piece of evidence against the Atheists.
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Anyway, I said it doesn't fucking matter that "Less than 100% of humans are naturally inclined towards statism." What I meant was that if you're living in an area containing more than 150 people,
you prefer that nature-conquering binding force.
But which binding force do you prefer? GENETICS can be ruled out because not nearly everyone in your area is closely related. RELIGION can be ruled out, because not nearly everyone goes to the same church. So the only thing left is GOVERNMENT.